Days out, and in, with NYK2
What have I been up to since I posted to my journal on Tuesday?
I have posted two pictures at photo_scavenger - one for alphabet and one for zodiac, and also posted about my day to monthlydiaryday.
NYK2 has been with us quite a lot this week. Apart from the visit to Port Erin I wrote about on Tuesday, her, S2C, and I had one day where it mainly rained and we stayed indoors, all on our separate devices, apart from a couple of hours when we played a pop music quiz - her and I against S2C - he still won :) The three of us also went to The Manx Museum one afternoon and then feasted from the chip shop - she had the great local delicacy of 'chips, cheese and gravy' and we both had fish and chips.
I have been to the Spring Chickens WI with my sister and Niece number 2; due to Covid the speaker couldn't come at the last minutes as he needed to isolate, so instead of 'The Vikings' we had 'Crafting and Cackling'! I took the sort of knitting you can do without counting, or even looking at it (another pair of fingerless mitts for Knit for Peace), but the best entertainment of the evening was watching someone trying to teach my sister to crochet a granny square - and trying to be encouragingly positive as Jackie managed to produce a circle :)
That evening was also notable because I managed to walk down hill from my sister's house to the building we meet in, and back up again, without anything more than a couple of twinges from my knee. I do think the cortisone injection has helped; I have more good knee days now, and the bad knee days are not as bad as they were.
I was at church today and Rev Dawn was telling us that when she took a service in Ramsey, last week, she forgot to add her dog-collar to her shirt. At the end of the service (a joint URC/Methodist one) an elderly lady came up and said "Hello - you must be a very new local preacher as I've not seen you on the circuit..." (the name for a local group of Methodist churches) and then proceeded to give her 'some useful tips to help you improve your preaching'.
Dawn said she listened, trying not to smile too broadly, then said "Thank you, it is always good to get helpful feedback, even after 40 years." At which point the lady's son could be heard whispering, loudly, in her ear "She's the URC Minister, Mother!!"
This afternoon I have been writing the next chapter of Transmitting - it is about 1,100 words long now, but I think need a bit of juggling to get it to work better before I carry on!
I have posted two pictures at photo_scavenger - one for alphabet and one for zodiac, and also posted about my day to monthlydiaryday.
NYK2 has been with us quite a lot this week. Apart from the visit to Port Erin I wrote about on Tuesday, her, S2C, and I had one day where it mainly rained and we stayed indoors, all on our separate devices, apart from a couple of hours when we played a pop music quiz - her and I against S2C - he still won :) The three of us also went to The Manx Museum one afternoon and then feasted from the chip shop - she had the great local delicacy of 'chips, cheese and gravy' and we both had fish and chips.
I have been to the Spring Chickens WI with my sister and Niece number 2; due to Covid the speaker couldn't come at the last minutes as he needed to isolate, so instead of 'The Vikings' we had 'Crafting and Cackling'! I took the sort of knitting you can do without counting, or even looking at it (another pair of fingerless mitts for Knit for Peace), but the best entertainment of the evening was watching someone trying to teach my sister to crochet a granny square - and trying to be encouragingly positive as Jackie managed to produce a circle :)
That evening was also notable because I managed to walk down hill from my sister's house to the building we meet in, and back up again, without anything more than a couple of twinges from my knee. I do think the cortisone injection has helped; I have more good knee days now, and the bad knee days are not as bad as they were.
I was at church today and Rev Dawn was telling us that when she took a service in Ramsey, last week, she forgot to add her dog-collar to her shirt. At the end of the service (a joint URC/Methodist one) an elderly lady came up and said "Hello - you must be a very new local preacher as I've not seen you on the circuit..." (the name for a local group of Methodist churches) and then proceeded to give her 'some useful tips to help you improve your preaching'.
Dawn said she listened, trying not to smile too broadly, then said "Thank you, it is always good to get helpful feedback, even after 40 years." At which point the lady's son could be heard whispering, loudly, in her ear "She's the URC Minister, Mother!!"
This afternoon I have been writing the next chapter of Transmitting - it is about 1,100 words long now, but I think need a bit of juggling to get it to work better before I carry on!